About Táabal

Táabal works with different communities or families that produce handmade textiles in Chiapas and help them optimize their work process. They also provide workshops and bring the material to the communities to facilitate their work. Táabal designers envision the contemporary use for the traditional interwoven fabrics and together with the artisan communities develop unique pieces for daily use.

Táabal aims to honor the artisan work from indigenous women from the state of Chiapas. They have developed relationships with different communities around the region focusing on textile artwork.

They work according to fair trade practices. They work together with the families or cooperatives from each of the communities to analyze their traditional production process and they offer new ways to organize themselves to become more productive. They also establishing fair payments according to the complexity, time spent, and skills used for each one of the pieces.

Táabal enrolls everyone in the production process according to an annual retribution basis, where a portion of the profits made from the products sold are invested in projects after making a study of their needs. These projects involve having better workshops, tools, health services, among others.